“Opening a Technical Field: Ecological Restoration, Local Knowledge and Citizen Science”

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Dorondel, Stefan. ““Opening a Technical Field: Ecological Restoration, Local Knowledge and Citizen Science.” Global EnvironmentA Journal of Transdisciplinary History 14, no. 1 (2021): 201–7.

This essay draws examples from Eastern Europe to argue for new approaches to ecological restoration that pay heed to the words and wisdom of people living in close contact with areas being restored. Through such listening and learning, we would hope to turn ecological restoration from a rather technical activity, understood and practised by a handful of illuminati, into a more popular activity in which citizens take full part. (From the article)

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